Revolution In The Head: Sixties Counter Culture with Jim Millington

Victor Moscoso is one cool dude...

Victor Moscoso (born 1936 in Oleiros, Galicia, Spain) is an American artist best known for producing Psychedelic posters, advertisements, and 'Underground Comix'- for titles such as Yellow Dog, Jiz Comics, Snatch Comics, El Perfecto Comics, and Zap Comix- his psychedelic style made him a noticeable artist internationally.  

Moscoso studied art at Cooper Union in New York City and at Yale University before moving to San Francisco in 1959. After making the move, he went to the San Francisco Art Institute where he eventually became an 'instructor'.

Moscoso's use of vibrating colors was influenced by the painter Josef Albers, who happened to be one of his teachers at Yale. Below are some examples of Albers' work, you can see how his use of colour combination has inspired Moscoso's own work:

​You can see that Moscoso uses optical effects and color combinations that give the illusion that the design is vibrating off the page. His unique style produces an almost mind-bending sensation of loss of equilibrium, similar to a drugged state (not that I know what this is like of course!!). His poster work is exceptionally individualistic and easily identifiable- as my old college tutor used to say, "It's some hippy-dippy shit."